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Christmas

Polish Three Kings Parades break records with 2 million participants in Jubilee Year

January 9, 2025
By Paulina Guzik
OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Jubilee 2025, News, World News

Three Kings Parades across Poland Jan. 6 broke records in the Jubilee Year as 2 million people marched down the streets of 905 cities and towns in an initiative that spread abroad from the European country with vibrant popular faith.

Christ’s birth brings light to a troubled world, pope says

January 6, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, News, Vatican, World News

In a troubled world, the birth of Christ reveals God’s unwavering determination to draw all people to himself and illuminate even the darkest corners, Pope Francis said.

The most desired gift

January 5, 2025
By Effie Caldarola
OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Uncategorized

Sometimes, maintaining hope challenges our faith.

Mother-daughter duo’s gingerbread replica of long-awaited new Catholic school ‘a labor of love’

January 4, 2025
By Dianne Towalski
Filed Under: Christmas, News, Schools, World News

For the past 26 years, Sue and Bailey have created special gingerbread houses for the holidays and when they heard that the school was being built, they decided that it would be their next gingerbread “house.”

Little highlanders from Poland win the internet with their midnight Mass caroling

December 30, 2024
By Paulina Guzik
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News

An army of little violinists dressed in traditional attire of Polish highlanders, or “górale,” went viral playing their Christmas carol in a gorgeous church in southern Poland, making a local legendary children’s orchestra go global.

Wrapped gifts sit under a Christmas tree

A Tale of Two Gifts

December 27, 2024
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Christmas, Commentary, Open Window

The true gift of Christmas is always the same—love come down from heaven to earth, love that changes everything, the Son of God made man, come to show us how to live and how to love.

Celebrating the gift of salvation all Christmas season long

December 26, 2024
By D.D. Emmons
OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature

There are feasts and events in the first month of the year that help us assimilate the miracle of Christmas Day and understand who this new child is, his divinity and the meaning of his birth.

Pope urges war-torn world to walk through door of peace on Christmas

December 25, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

As millions of pilgrims prepare to cross through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis called on individuals, nations and the global community to take a transformative step toward peace and reconciliation by walking through the “door of salvation” that is Jesus Christ.

Pope at Christmas: Jesus’ birth brings hope for world of justice, peace

December 25, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

Celebrating Christmas Mass after opening the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis said the birth of Jesus fills Christians with hope and the courage to work for peace and justice.

The Christmas octave: Continuing the celebration

December 25, 2024
By D.D. Emmons
OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature

Every day of the Christmas octave is filled with meaning that reflects back on the Nativity — not just the birth of Christ, but the impact and reality of the birth.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo! What was the Star of Bethlehem?

December 25, 2024
By Peter D. Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News

Like much else the Bible recounts, the star of the Magi was a special intervention in the world by God, probably carried out with the intermediation of one of his angels. It was a Christmas miracle.

Pope opens Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, launching ‘Jubilee of Hope’

December 24, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, launching what he called a “Jubilee of Hope.”

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